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Article • July 15, 2008
South Carolina Prisoners' Furlough Eligibility Prior To 1993 Amendment Grand-fathered by South Carolina State Corrections and Parole entities appealed a judgment entitling prisoners within six months of release to participate in a furlough program. The program's eligibility requirements were changed by a 1993 statutory amendment. The court affirmed the judgment. …
Article • July 15, 2008
Arizona Prisoners' Records Requests Statutorily Denied; No Constitutional Right To Work Furlough by Arizona State pro se prisoner Richard Berry appealed the dismissal of his due process claims for being denied work furlough and copies of his criminal records. The dismissal was affirmed. Berry requested his master record file after …
CA Uses Jail Inmate Welfare Funds for Reentry; Expands Early Release for Permanently Disabled CDCR Prisoners by In September 2007, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill (SB) 718 into law, which amends penal code § 4025 to permit the use of Inmate Welfare Funds (IWF) collected in eight California counties to …
Riots at CCA Prisons Reveal Weaknesses in Out-of-State Imprisonment Policies by Matthew T. Clarke By Matthew T. Clarke States, strapped by tight budgets and pressed by swelling prison populations, are faced with the Hobson's choice of releasing prisoners early to ease overcrowding or building prisons they can ill afford to …
Washington Jail Prisoners Suffer from Overcrowding, Abusive Guards, Inadequate Health Care and Indifferent Politicians by Roger Smith Since the mid-1990s, Washington State jail populations have increased exponentially. Obsolete facilities built decades ago to hold a handful of prisoners are now packed like sardine tins, with as many prisoners sleeping on …
Release of Medically Incapacitated Prisoners Could Save California Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions in a Time of Budget Crisis by Release of Medically Incapacitated Inmates Could Save California Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions in a Time of Budget Crisis Will the Board of Parole Hearings and the Schwarzenegger Administration Follow the Law? …
Article • May 15, 2008
No Liberty Interest In New Jersey Work Release by The plaintiff was on work release and living in a halfway house; he was removed from the program for drinking. He was later found not guilty, but he was not returned to the halfway house, and received no hearing to determine …
Article • May 15, 2008
Wisconsin Prisoner Loses Claim Over Transfer to Private Prison in Tennessee by The plaintiff, a Wisconsin prisoner housed in a private prison in Tennessee, filed an "irregular document" with no filing fee or IFP application, asserting that by transferring him Wisconsin had relinquished jurisdiction over him, entitling him to release. …
No Restriction on Moving Wisconsin Prisoners to Private Out of State Prisons by The plaintiff sought an injunction against his transfer to a private prison in Texas or Tennessee. His commitment to the "Wisconsin State Prisons" as opposed to the "Wisconsin Department of Corrections" does not mean he has a …
Littles v. CCA, TN, Complaint, transport dental injury, 2008 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0067 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0068 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0069 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0070
Flurry of Escapes Emphasizes Prisoners' Desperation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Last September produced a bumper crop of prison and jail escapes around the country, including a desperate escape by two Texas prisoners that resulted in the death of a guard, a car jacking and two shootouts. Plus a …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
California’s Compassionate Release Law Expanded to Include the Medically Incapacitated by California's Compassionate Release Law Expanded to Include the Medically Incapacitated California's compassionate release law, which already provided that prisoners who were physician-certified to have less than six months to live may apply for recall of sentence and release, was …
Making the Bad Guy Pay: The Growing Use of Cost Shifting as an Economic Sanction by Kirsten D. Levingston by Kirsten D. Levingston1 "At some point, we have to be able to say to people who have been incarcerated, and served time on probation or parole upon release, you have …
Federal Healthcare Receiver Investigates Out-of-State Deaths of Transferred California Prisoners, but Does His Authority Follow Them? by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The federal court-appointed Receiver for California?s prison healthcare system is investigating the deaths of four prisoners who were transferred to out-of-state facilities, but stopped short of declaring …
Federal Court Grants Class Certification to Disabled Washington Prisoners by On August 10, 2007, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington granted class certification to a group of disabled prisoners who were not allowed to participate in work release programs due to their disabilities. Plaintiff Rickey Peralez …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
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WA Prisoners Entitled to Minimal Due Process Before Risk Level Demotion by Division 1 of the Washington Court of Appeals has ruled that the State Department of Corrections (DOC) must afford minimal due process to prisoners whose risk assessment levels it intends to demote. In 2000, Dion Xavier Adams, a …
Alabama Prisons Sell Land to Finance Prison Building, Repair by In July 2007, Alabama Governor Bob Riley announced a plan to sell approximately 6,000 acres of state prison land to finance the construction of new prison beds and make needed repairs to existing facilities. The extra bed space would enable …
Article • January 15, 2008
Nebraska Prisoner's Transfer to Another Prison Was Lawful by Robert Hunt, a Nebraska state prisoner, is a Seventh Day Adventist. After nearly 20 years at the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP), he was transferred to the Tecumseh State Correctional Institute (TSCI) against his will. As a result he lost his job …
The Poisoned Pen of Fort Lyon Prison by Alan Prendergast Bought by the state for a dollar, Fort Lyon is rich in history, asbestos, sick prisoners and trouble. by Alan Prendergast History Lesson #1 In 1829, William Bent headed west to join his older brother in the fur business. William …
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
Utah Prisoner Kills Guard During Escape While on Medical Transport by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 25, 2007, a Utah state prisoner shot and killed a prison guard while escaping from a hospital where he had been taken to receive an MRI. The escape occurred at the …
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